"Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@CPKWEBSER5.ncr.disa.mil> wrote:

Ok,

I've only been at this for six months so I don't know everything about Linux yet. That will take at least seven months ;-) I'm trying to figure this tape thing out. My tape unit is SCSI ID-5. I believe it is /dev/st or something like that. I am not finding a howto on the subject. I believe there should be a link to my tape something like ln -s /dev/st /dev/tape. Is this what I need to do? I don't see an /dev/tape with an ls. When I try mt -f /dev/st0 rewind I don't get an error telling me that it is an invalid device, so I assume it is there. If I do mt rewind, I get an error that says it can't find /dev/tape.

I guess I need a pointer on how to get started with SCSI tape devices. Can anyone give me a place to start? I have downloaded and compiled amanda. And I'm working on KDAT. I have a lot of problems compiling KDE tools. I assume these will go away when I get the new glib5 with 5.3.

Sure hope my SBP16 works on my ASUS P2B 400M Hz. If not I guess I'll be without sound until we figure out the bug.

TIA,

Steve

Hi Steve, First ...SuSE will have fixes for any broken parts of any SuSE distributions. They are really good about that. I also have a nice SCSI tape drive and it's /dev/st0 and I use Bru, but I hear amanda is alright also. It's best to name the device with mt as -f /dev/st0 to be sure. The best help available for Linux is one online source...... see <A HREF="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP"><A HREF="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP</A">http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP</A</A>> and find a mirror close to you. Your SB should work fine given any broken config with sound gets fixed. And your Asus sounds like a screamin box. Keep going ...Linux is really fun and useful if you stick with it. Best Regards -Dee - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e